Good Morning.
Today is our 2,918th day in Iraq, and our 3,446th day in Afghanistan.
We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing wars, courtesy of Antiwar.com:
American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4439
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4300
Since Handover (6/29/04): 350
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 211
Since Operation New Dawn: 21
Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,495
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 862
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq : 348
Academics Killed - Iraq: 448
We find this morning's
cost of war passing through:
$ 1, 165, 753, 800, 000 .00
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